I've heard an unconfirmed report (a co-worker's girlfriend called him) that there was a bomb at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, with people injured. I am hearing multiple sirens, though I'm not in the Copley area.

Pretty good day. I woke up, looked out the window at the snow, and then flew to Helsinki to run a marathon.

Seriously, are anyone else's parents like that? My parents get worked up every time something bad happens and then I get a call about it, or it gets pulled up from their mental database whenever I plan to do something.

"Son, we know you've done research in schools. We just wanted to make sure you weren't in Newtown, Connecticut, this week."

"Son, we read about the avalanche on Mount Annapurna that killed three Korean climbers. You went to Korea once and you live near mountains, so we just wanted to be sure it wasn't you."

"You're going to Disneyland? Do you realize that three tourists were murdered there [in 1986]? Why would you want to go there?"

"A cruise? You're going on a cruise? Did you not hear about that ship capsized in Italy last year?"

I guess it's good that they care about me, but they've never once asked about my cholesterol or my blood pressure. It's always about bizarre stuff that is 12 parsecs beyond far-fetched.

My uncle called me because one of my immediate family members is a runner. It's baffling.

I'm just saying there's all sorts of shit i could be doing! I could watch a movie, play a video game, rub one out, read a book, learn a foreign language, etc.. But i'm still watching the assholes because i love them, and I hate myself

I'll be interested to see what all comes out of this in the next 48 hours. If that thing was set off via phone there is a very good chance they'll find a suspect. Esp since there was a GIANT TIMER right next to the explosion.

__________________My name is Clay. I am a clueless moron when it comes to evaluating football talent. I thought that Pat Mahomes was unworthy of being drafted in the first round, also, I wanted Geno Smith first overall. I also claimed that tyreek hill was undeserving of even being in the CFL. I am wrong 20x more than I'm right and I will troll this site with my uneducated football takes.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

I'm just saying there's all sorts of shit i could be doing! I could watch a movie, play a video game, rub one out, read a book, learn a foreign language, etc.. But i'm still watching the assholes because i love them, and I hate myself

All kinds of people vote. Not enough of those people think highly enough of Trump to make him President but all kinds of people vote.

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Originally Posted by Donger

So, if they were polling better than Trump and the primary goal was to prevent Hillary from becoming POTUS, perhaps it would have been a better strategic decision to nominate someone who actually had a chance of beating her and preventing that than nominating Donald Trump.